Description
Against a society that often lost sight of principles—aesthetic, social or political–Emerson offered a challenge which other writers accepted: to rid the new country of “smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment.” Embark on an extraordinary adventure with the literati of the day—45 delicious years of Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Lincoln, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Jacobs, Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Melville and Emily Dickinson.
